Tulsi Bhua (aunt) is beside herself. She cannot find her Gangajali (a receptacle for holy water). Mummy is helping her search; it cannot just ...

There is a strained quietness about the house. Mummy is terribly upset! Rita abandoned her Graduate Program at the University of Delhi after one ...

All packed in the car for a visit to a family friend. I have come along for the ride—no school today.   Tenth-grade finals are ...

Gaggles of geese and ducks abound around me. Paying no attention to me as I pick my way thru the throng, they are busy ...

Summer nights of yore in a sparsely crowded Delhi, dhurries on rustic charpoys layered with cool white sheets, stars pricking in a darkening blue ...